Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb

Small states are weak militarily so that they rapidly become vassals. The Ottomans were (until the end) unintrusive, just wanted payments. Pax Ottomana: like a mafia don you pay the piso & get order. Some like Anc. Egypt/Ming China/Czarist Russia were centralizers. 3/n — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 26, 2022

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Cline @digkabri showed how centralized nation-states were shellacked during the Bronze age collapse, but Phoenician city-states thrived. Phoencs are blamed by marshmallowsoftscholars s.a. @josephinequinn for not existing because they did not have an administrative unity. 2/n — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 26, 2022

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Centralization makes the system weak when large, statist, & anti-commerce. Also comes with a centralized "national identity", & a militaristic bent. Small states = benign system. Large centralized states = aggressive, expansionist, hewed to some "national charater/soul". 4/n — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 26, 2022